if you’re using modern fabrication techniques, a couple 10uf mlcc capacitors in small packages are just as good as traditional decade capacitors (10uf,1uf,0.1uf) for decoupling in pretty much every situation, and you need to worry about less varieties on your bill of materials
Usually it was a tradeoff with the voltage, but just checked and MLCC caps have quite high V limit! Long time I haven’t done any analog design but got a chuckle seeing that micro is still typed as lowercase “u” :)
if you’re using modern fabrication techniques, a couple 10uf mlcc capacitors in small packages are just as good as traditional decade capacitors (10uf,1uf,0.1uf) for decoupling in pretty much every situation, and you need to worry about less varieties on your bill of materials
Usually it was a tradeoff with the voltage, but just checked and MLCC caps have quite high V limit! Long time I haven’t done any analog design but got a chuckle seeing that micro is still typed as lowercase “u” :)
mlccs can also be run right up to their voltage limits without needing a huge derating
for high frequency response the main determining factor is actually the package size!
I still call pf ‘puffs’